Tag: rice

DTI MUST STEP UP PRICE MONITORING EFFORTS, PUNISH ‘HEARTLESS’ PROFITEERS IN REGIONS – NOGRALES

Post author By Rosalie Reynoso
Post date August 24, 2018
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House Appropriations Committee Chairperson Rep. Karlo “Ang Probinsyano” Nograles urged the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to intensify their anti-profiteering operations after skyrocketing rice prices in Zamboanga City forced the city council to pass a resolution urging the local government to place the city under a state of calamity. Nograles, who had earlier called […]

Tags DTI, profiteering, Rep. Karlo “Ang Probinsyano” Nograles, rice, SRP, Zamboanga

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AGRI PARTY-LIST ECHOES PRESIDENT’S CALL TO PASS RICE TARIFF BILL

Post author By Cindy Villarica
Post date July 24, 2018
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The AGRI Party-list today echoed the call of President Rodrigo Duterte during his State of the Nation Address on Monday to immediately pass the rice tariffication bill, which he had certified as urgent, as a long-term measure to lower the price of rice. The President said that “we need to switch from the current quota […]

Tags AGRI PARTY-LIST, Agriculture, Duterte, rice, SONA, tariffication